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A complete recipe of measure-preserving diffusions in Euclidean space was recently derived unifying several MCMC algorithms into a single framework. In this paper, we develop a geometric theory that improves and generalises this…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Alessandro Barp , So Takao , Michael Betancourt , Alexis Arnaudon , Mark Girolami

A discretization of a continuum theory with constraints or conserved quantities is called mimetic if it mirrors the conserved laws or constraints of the continuum theory at the discrete level. Such discretizations have been found useful in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Cayetano Di Bartolo , Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

The mean curvature flow describes the evolution of a surface (a curve) with normal velocity proportional to the local mean curvature. It has many applications in mathematics, science and engineering. In this paper, we develop a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Yihe Liu , Xianmin Xu

Discrete mechanics is presented as an alternative to the equations of fluid mechanics, in particular to the Navier-Stokes equation. The derivation of the discrete equation of motion is built from the intuitions of Galileo, the principles of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-26 Jean-Paul Caltagirone

The present paper aims to establish the local well-posedness of Euler's fluid equations on geometric rough paths. In particular, we consider the Euler equations for the incompressible flow of an ideal fluid whose Lagrangian transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Dan Crisan , Darryl D. Holm , James-Michael Leahy , Torstein Nilssen

We propose a novel structure preserving discretization for viscous and resistive magnetohydrodynamics. We follow the recent line of work on discrete least action principle for fluid and plasma equation, incorporating the recent advances to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Valentin Carlier

In this work we study arbitrary-order hybrid discretizations of Friedrichs systems. Friedrichs systems provide a framework that goes beyond the standard classification of partial differential equations into hyperbolic or elliptic, and are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Daniele Di Pietro , Aurelio Spadotto

This paper surveys results found by the authors in the previous papers (see for example, A. Duyunova, V. Lychagin, S. Tychkov, Differential invariants for spherical layer flows of a viscid fluid, Journal of Geometry and Physics, 130,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Anna Duyunova , Valentin Lychagin , Sergey Tychkov

This work is devoted to the study of dissipative fluid systems, through the lens of a geometric variational formulation. Building upon previous works extending Hamilton's principle to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the present method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Bastien Manach-Pérennou , François Gay-Balmaz

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving the time-dependent Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes equations that model the flow of two phases with different densities. The pressure-correction step in the projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Chen Liu , Deep Ray , Christopher Thiele , Lu Lin , Beatrice Riviere

Recent advances in cell biology and experimental techniques using reconstituted cell extracts have generated significant interest in understanding how geometry and topology influence active fluid dynamics. In this work, we present a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-13 Cuncheng Zhu , David Saintillan , Albert Chern

On the example of two-phase continua experiencing stress induced solid-fluid phase transitions we explore the use of the Euler structure in the formulation of the governing equations. The Euler structure guarantees that solutions of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-02 Ilya Peshkov , Miroslav Grmela , Evgeniy Romenski

We study a special kind of singular vorticities in ideal 2D fluids that combine features of point vortices and vortex sheets, namely pointed vortex loops. We focus on the coadjoint orbits of the area-preserving diffeomorphism group of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Ioana Ciuclea , Cornelia Vizman

We propose a finite element discretization for the steady, generalized Navier-Stokes equations for fluids with shear-dependent viscosity, completed with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and an inhomogeneous divergence constraint.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Julius Jeßberger , Alex Kaltenbach

Unstructured grid ocean models are advantageous for simulating the coastal ocean and river-estuary-plume systems. However, unstructured grid models tend to be diffusive and/or computationally expensive which limits their applicability to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Tuomas Kärnä , Stephan C. Kramer , Lawrence Mitchell , David A. Ham , Matthew D. Piggott , António M. Baptista

Many models in mathematical physics are given as non-linear partial differential equation of hydrodynamic type; the incompressible Euler, KdV, and Camassa--Holm equations are well-studied examples.A beautiful approach to well-posedness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Martin Bauer , Klas Modin

We introduce a variational time discretization for the multi-dimensional gas dynamics equations, in the spirit of minimizing movements for curves of maximal slope. Each timestep requires the minimization of a functional measuring the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Fabio Cavalletti , Marc Sedjro , Michael Westdickenberg

Direct methods for the simulation of optimal control problems apply a specific discretization to the dynamics of the problem, and the discrete adjoint method is suitable to calculate corresponding conditions to approximate an optimal…

The fluid flow transport and hydrodynamic problems often take the form of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. In this work we will present a new scheme of finite volume methods for solving these evolution equations. It is a family of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Moussa Ziggaf , Mohamed Boubekeur , Imad kissami , Fayssal Benkhaldoun , Imad El Mahi

Spatial discretisation of geometrically complex computational domains often entails unstructured meshes of general topology for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Mesh skewness is then typically encountered causing severe deterioration of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Simon Hill , Daniel Deising , Thomas Acher , Harald Klein , Dieter Bothe , Holger Marschall